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Show 8AVED Br A MADMAN. A IimtKK Ti:i:Sl.(i FEiOM A CIS RM Kit AND CL'TI ; Nil II1S OWN THUCAT. I'aiil ll.n'5, a barlifr, quit the barber bar-ber Hliup ol ttie iMrcliAiiui' hotfl in this city, in Anuil. lie whs tillered an imrt-'ts ol pity il tie would ro in.iin, but, Imjiihh tlmt lie iinlil earn much mure its an independent bar her iu a Jeraoy town, aud so be enabled en-abled tr many M;si Brewun, of 1 ti East Sixty-eighth street, to whom he hail been attached, he declined the offer. He hired tho basement shop at Main aud IJridge streets, in Som-erville, Som-erville, N. J., engaged an assistant, John Uase, and was soon prospering. But his business did nut develop au rapidly as ho had desired, and he wat occasionally desponileut. A nervous disorder also depressed his mind. Oo Friday evening he hurried out of bit-shop, bit-shop, after he had lockud himself in for the night, and ran through the streets shouting "Murder! tiiel" He explained that he thought that hit shop was surrounded by ruffians who intended to break iu and drag him out tn a Pihlipt. (In SaIiii-Hhv nfler noon Haas began LoahaveMr. Brown, a customer, and then to whet the 'ruzor. Then he stepped back a pace from the chair, and slipping the razor into his throat, nearly beneath hit-right hit-right ear, drew it with his left hand, deeply to his left ear. The niior fell, and Haas staggered around the room and fell dead. New York Sun. |